mistakes Harbor, a castellated abbey for the rich to flee the pandemic Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe! Cory Doctorow

happy mutants It's Poe's birthday, so here's Neil Gaiman reading The Raven Cory Doctorow

Games Listen to William S. Burroughs read Edgar Allen Poe for a PC game David Pescovitz

literature Could a Nabokov novel have been the 'father of all hypertext demos'? Ellsworth Toohey

poetry This poem perfectly captures AI-induced rage Jennifer Sandlin

literature Granta published a likely AI-written story as a prize finalist Ellsworth Toohey

Trump's Justice Department rediscovers its enthusiasm for intimidating the press Jason Weisberger

erase racism 'The hood is off': Virginia Republican steps onto America's most obvious rhetorical landmine Jason Weisberger

History This archive of old personal ads is strangely moving Popkin

Technology After Friday, Meta can read your Instagram DMs again Ellsworth Toohey

Pedo Protector Bondi, DOJ continue procedural chicanery over Epstein questions Jason Weisberger

Technology Researchers built a language model that thinks it's still 1930 Ellsworth Toohey

security Apple patches bug that exposed deleted Signal messages Ellsworth Toohey

Science Someone put the dullest part of The Iliad inside a mummy Ruben Bolling

crime Bear costume insurance scammers get 180 days in the den Rob Beschizza

privacy Tucson cops cracked a cigarette case using a tool tracking 500M phones Ellsworth Toohey

security How did the FBI recover Signal messages from a deleted app? Ellsworth Toohey

books 15 pages a day turns you into a reader of 40+ books a year Ellsworth Toohey

crowdfunding An artist painted a monster, an occult poet conjured it to life, and now it wants to kill your Mörk Borg character Gareth Branwyn